Food

The Middleby Corporation  (Illinois), a Wall Street-listed global leader in the foodservice equipment industry with annual revenues US $2.33 billion, has acquired Ve.Ma.C.

La Doria, a leading private label producer of tomato-based products, pulses, fruit juices and ready-made sauces, closed 2017 with a better than expected performance.

Italian company, specialized in the designing, building and marketing of capsule packaging solutions for coffee and soluble products, Spreafico will introduce a new cartoning machine to the Milan trade fair, that will expand the current portfolio. Also on show are two machines for capsule packaging with two and six lanes.

The aim of the partnership is to offer a reference network to companies in the packaging branch and related processing industries. The partners now have signed respective agreements defining the details of their partnership, first announced at interpack 2017.

In mid-June 2017, the EU court of justice ruled in case C-422/16 that, for the purposes of promotion and marketing, the term “milk” is only permissible for animal products (EU regulations had previously allowed certain exceptions).

The Thermo Scientific Versa checkweigher controller now offers an optional filler valve monitoring capability that monitors the behavior of up to 16-filler heads and determines if any individual head is not performing correctly.

3 May 2017 - Sun Chemical has formed a commercial alliance with SAPICI SpA to market SAPICI's lamination adhesives portfolio under the Sun Chemical commercial brand name.

The two shows will be present at the international events in Düsseldorf and Milan, where they will promote the new features due to be introduced in 2018.

Six months ago, DuPont and a number of partners launched a ground-breaking pilot project in South Africa on nutrition, food waste, packaging and the circular economy called “the Virtuous Circle”. The challenge? Developing a “best practice” of multilayer plastic packaging that keeps food safe for longer, reduces waste, and is recyclable.  

We have been writing about packaging for more than 20 years. Yet we have never ceased to imagine a better packaging. For everyone.
Which is why we invite you to our stand at interpack (North Entrance - B08) on May 9, from 4 pm onwards, where you can receive a free copy of the book ”Naturally technological packaging”.

The business of packaging is, at its core, involved in product and materials handling, and leading international conveyor and belting specialists Ammeraal Beltech will be at Interpack (Hall 4, Stand E46) to show how they can help companies in the packaging and food processing business to achieve the results they require.

Albis Plastic is presenting “Active Packaging” solutions for flexible film applications, such as bag-in-box (BIB) wine packaging, at this year’s Interpack trade fair (Hall 7, Level 1, Stand A08).

Eye-catching, practical and sustainable: consumers and consumer goods manufacturers have a range of expectations when it comes to our packaging solutions. To meet those expectations as precisely as possible, packaging has to above all be one thing: as individual as the consumers themselves.

The Schur Flexibles Group, which has its head office in Baden/Austria, will be represented with an extensive product portfolio at Interpack 2017 (Hall 10, Stand D96). The group of companies is presenting profitable packaging solutions at the leading international trade fair for the packaging industry.

Leading, customer-focused supplier of specialized and multi-purpose film solutions to a global market place, Taghleef Industries presents at Interpack 2017 a wide range of BoPP, BoPLA and CPP films developed for the packaging of food and non-food products, labels, industrial and graphic arts applications.

The advantages of laminil and ISOLAM/ISOLBOX, by Isonova

Each year Fratelli Beretta ships 40,000 pallets of delicatessen products from its Milan factory. Automatic PAL-Cut palletising saves precious time and money and prevents disruption to production for food specialists.

The extensive range of weighing, packing and inspection solutions on show from Ishida at this year’s Interpack will underline the company’ ability to design, manufacture and install comprehensive, best-in-class packing line solutions, tailored to the precise needs of individual customers for a wide variety of markets and applications.

WaveGrip, the first genuine alternative to current beverage multi-packing solutions, and the WorldStar-winning Twist Cup with screw lid, the latest in a long line of award-winning packs, are just two of the highlights of the RPC Group stand (Hall 10, Stand D21) at this year’s Interpack.

Bosch presents the first freely scalable vertical flat pouch packaging machine at interpack 2017: variable number of lanes allows for optimal productivity, high dosing accuracy for greater efficiency and safety, Industry 4.0 solutions increase machine availability.